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1743

1743: Attack from shore on the Jolly Batchelor, bound for Newport (voyage 25185)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Newport in 1743, the Jolly Batchelor was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Sierra Leone.

The record gives the numbers as: 20 people were embarked; 20 were landed.

Captain: Cutler, John. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “voyage completed as intended.”

Resistance is recorded only where a surviving document mentions it. The 571 such acts in the record are a floor. Silence in that column is silence in the archive. It says nothing about calm on the ship.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 25185